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Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon

(Please Don't Tell My Parents #2)

Richard Roberts (Goodreads Author)

3.87 · Rating details · 1,854 ratings · 117 reviews

Supervillains do not merely play hooky.

True, coming back to school after a month spent fighting - and defeating - adult superheroes is a bit of a comedown for the Inscrutable Machine. When offered the chance to skip school in the most dramatic way possible, Penelope Akk can't resist. With the help of a giant spider and mysterious red goo, she builds a spaceship and flies t ...more

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Dec 16, 2014 Coyora Dokusho rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: the-glee-of-mad-science, 2015-short-list-best-first-reads

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12/16/14

I am stalking this book with rabid fervor....

12/20/14

Publishing pushed back into January. NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!! NuUuUuUuUuUuU!!! ;_; Nooooooooooooo!!!

Okay let's go add it to 2015 lists. Because people need to buy it, so I can get more of my fix.

1/3/15

Sooooo, for those of you *not* aware I can be just a tad bit obsessive... just a TAD bit.... Yeah I spammed the hell out of the 2015 lists... but only where it made sense!!!! WAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!!

1/29/2015

Well! I p ...more

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Feb 12, 2015 Yzabel Ginsberg rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, science-fiction, steampunk, requested, children, superheroes-and-villains

(I got a copy from the publisher, as part of the review tour, in exchange for an honest review.)

I read the first installment of this series, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain, last year, and thought it was a pretty good novel. So, of course, I couldn't pass up on the invitation to read the second one.

I found it weaker, though I still liked it. It contains a lot of good ideas and concepts, and it's perfect if looking for a wild adventure in space, with alien technology and bio-weapo (I got a copy from the publisher, as part of the review tour, in exchange for an honest review.)

I read the first installment of this series, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain, last year, and thought it was a pretty good novel. So, of course, I couldn't pass up on the invitation to read the second one.

I found it weaker, though I still liked it. It contains a lot of good ideas and concepts, and it's perfect if looking for a wild adventure in space, with alien technology and bio-weapons, lost space stations hidden on asteroids, and a steampunkish flavour to boot. Those parts were highly amusing, in terms of Weird Science, and Penny's power developed in a way that clearly forced her to rethink a few things and decide whether she wanted to go (too) far or stop while it was still time. Archimedes, for instance, was both fascinating and creepy in its uses and in the possibilities it introduced.

Remmy's character, too, was an interesting counterpoint to Penny: two girls with similar powers, with a basis for strong friendship, but also for jealousy and competition. I could see where Remmy came from, why she reacted the way she did, out of stubborness more than anything else, probably... but then, she's also only eleven. I'd certainly like to see her appear again later in the series, if only for a chance to see how that relationship could develop if given more time and more distance.

On the other hand, the fast-paced plot sometimes left me dangling, as I wondered "wait, when did this character walk into the room?" or "why aren't they paying more attention to the fct that [character X] has basically done a huge mistake?" It made me feel like the story carried the characters where they needed to be, but not always with a clear reason.

Two things I regret:
- The somewhat lackluster presence of Claire and Ray. Their antics are funny, and they make good sidekicks. However, at the end of the first novel, we had been given more to see about Ray, in particular, and I had hoped this arc, among others, would be explored. However, apart from playing sidekicks, those two didn't really get much development.

- The very feeble involvement of Penny's parents and other adults (although I laughed at the Audit's interpretation of the situation, because... it did make sense, in a "I'm a parent who cannot imagine my daughter is evil, so I'll unconsciously find another solution"). In the first book, I really liked the "please don't tell my parents..." concept, and how the Inscrutable Machine had to go to various ends to hide their identity, make people think they weren't Penelope, Claire and Ray. Here, since most of the story unfolds in space, the pressure of not being discovered was much less a problem (even though Penny's realisation at the end—how to make a Hero appear—gives me good hopes for the next installment's potential plot).

In general, it is still a pleasant story to read, though its predecessor will remain higher on my list. ...more

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Feb 05, 2015 Malcolm McCrimmon rated it liked it

Short version: Not one of Roberts' better books, but a fun and imaginative read nevertheless.

Long version: This book feels like the result of Roberts getting really excited about going ~*INTO SPACE*~ and then not being sure what to do once he got there--which is pretty much what happened to his protagonist. One of the things I loved most about the first book in this series was Penny's incredible agency. Even more than her superpower, it was her determination to make the most of whatever life thr Short version: Not one of Roberts' better books, but a fun and imaginative read nevertheless.

Long version: This book feels like the result of Roberts getting really excited about going ~*INTO SPACE*~ and then not being sure what to do once he got there--which is pretty much what happened to his protagonist. One of the things I loved most about the first book in this series was Penny's incredible agency. Even more than her superpower, it was her determination to make the most of whatever life threw at her and turn it to her advantage that kept Penny and her friends on top (not to mention made them great supervillains!) Unfortunately, that agency seems to be largely missing in the sequel, where Penny and her minions are railroaded from one chance encounter to the next with little more motivation than "this is what has to happen next for the plot." Unfortunately, lack of agency is death for solid characterization, which is one of Roberts' greatest strengths. Even the side characters suffer: Claire has a tiny, shallow arc and Ray doesn't change at all, other familiar faces with established characters and personalities are absent, and the new characters we meet are flat and predictable. The one exception is Remmy, a determined and intelligent 11-year-old with mad science powers wildly different from Penny's, but just as impressive. The most interesting part of the book was the relationship between Penny and Remmy--and unfortunately, it was the part that suffered the most from the plot's incessant railroading. Instead of a compelling, complex conflict between two personalities that are practically forces of nature, I was forced to watch two seemingly intelligent and in-control characters make stupid mistakes, lose control of their emotions at random, and jump to wild conclusions for no reason. I believe this is what TvTropes calls "the idiot ball." Yes, I was disappointed, Remmy and Penny both deserved better treatment.

All that said, Roberts remains one of the most imaginative and compelling writers around. Yes, the characters suffered for the sake of the plot, but it was such a *cool* plot I was almost willing to forgive it. They go to space, for crying out loud! I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say that Penny does, in fact, blow up a moon! Despite my disappointments, I still had a lot of fun reading it, and I am looking forward to the inevitable third volume. Here's hoping it will see Penny taking charge and kicking butt again, instead of getting shoved around helplessly by forces beyond her control (e.g. the author). ...more

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Mar 25, 2017 Eric Allen rated it it was ok

Meh.

It wasn't terrible, but it is a step down from the first book. The first book had an actual storyline. This book is more a collection of things that happen, and not so much a cohesive story. It sort of goes off the rails early on, and never really gets back on. It's definitely a little more silly than the first book, and not in the good kind of way. I also found the new characters to be rather annoying. It's generally harmless, but it seems to have fallen into the "it's for kids, who cares i ...more

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Mar 01, 2015 David rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: little girls in steampunk mechas, half-bovine space girls, gooey red aliens in love

Shelves: high-school, superheroes, read-on-phone, science-fiction, young-adult, ebook, female-protagonist, teenagers

This sequel to Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain is as fun and loaded with tropes as the first book, but the plot was a bit circuitous, and with our three heroes, Penny Akk (aka "Bad Penny"), Ray ("Re-viled") and Claire ("E-Claire") spending almost the entire book in space, it becomes a zany middle school space adventure more than the comic bookish supervillain story of the first book.

Penny, Ray, and Claire are still hanging out together and indulging in occasional bits of junior h This sequel to Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain is as fun and loaded with tropes as the first book, but the plot was a bit circuitous, and with our three heroes, Penny Akk (aka "Bad Penny"), Ray ("Re-viled") and Claire ("E-Claire") spending almost the entire book in space, it becomes a zany middle school space adventure more than the comic bookish supervillain story of the first book.

Penny, Ray, and Claire are still hanging out together and indulging in occasional bits of junior high school supervillainy while supposedly waiting for their opportunity to "go straight" and set their reputations right. It's becoming increasingly clear that they sort of like being villains, though, and along with dire hints about the true nature of Penny's Mad Science! powers, it may be that they are destined to never quite be the heroes they dreamed of being when they first became supers.

The author goes to greater lengths this time to explain how their super-genius parents could somehow remain unaware that Penny, Ray, and Claire are the villainous Inscrutable Machine. Just how many teenage supervillains are there in Los Angeles, anyway? Apparently quite a few!

The three of them are summoned to the lair of Spider, the very polite supervillain mastermind from the previous book, who also happens to be a giant spider. Spider wants to send them into space to retrieve an alien artifact. She doesn't have trouble convincing them to do it because Penny, Ray, and Claire are teenagers and hey, space adventure!

What they find out in space is a bunch of colonies on the moons of Jupiter, inhabited by humans who settled there a hundred years ago or so, thanks to Victorian mad science and Edwardian supervillains. The Jovian moons have also apparently been the site of incursions by several alien races, including the nasty, gooey, mind-controlling masters of biotech known as the Puppeteers, and the race known only as the Conquerors. Penny, it turns out, has an affinity for both Puppeteer and Conqueror technology, which proves to be quite disturbing.

There are a lot of characters in this book, a lot of factions, and our three protagonists get jerked every which way trying to figure out which side they should be on at any given moment. There are a lot of superhero fights, including the showdown with a younger version of Penny who can kludge together impressive techno-artifacts from any old junk lying around. There are of course betrayals and battles with aliens and lots of monologuing.

This was a fun book, but not as fun as the first book. It would still be a good (if somewhat long) read for any YA reader, but it seemed as if the author wanted to go off into an entirely new setting rather than sticking in the venue he'd created in the first book. He has expanded his superhero mythos a bit, but at the expense of developing the central characters and their home territory. It's kind of like if you introduced the X-Men in issue number one, and in issue #2 promptly had them fly off to meet aliens before we're grounded in who their friends and foes are back on Earth.

Will certainly read the next book in the series, because Penny Akk and her friends remain fun and very genre-savvy, but there is much more potential here and I hope there is more character development and signs of long-term plotting, as opposed to merely writing each book as an episodic adventure, which is what this one felt like.

3.5 stars, which I am rounding down to 3 for disappointed expectations. ...more

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Feb 05, 2015 A Voracious Reader (a.k.a. Carol) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book, middle-grade, sci-fi, curiosity-quills, fantasy

*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

The Inscrutable Machine has been living on a high, taking on and defeating adult superheroes, but it’s time to go back to school. How boring. Penelope, Ray and Claire have caught the itch and now they need more daring do to, well, do. When an opportunity drops into their laps they don’t need very much persuading to run off straight into another adventure. Only this time they aren’t fighting on Earth. They’re fighting in o ...more

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Nov 06, 2016 David Caldwell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, humorous, series, action, read-on-kindle, sci-fi, good-for-all, superhero, young-adult

Penny and her friends are back in this second volume of the series. This time they are heading to the moons of Jupiter to do a little investigating for Spider. They find themselves in the middle of a giant conflict with multiple sides.

This installment of the series has most of the good things that were in the first book. Great characters, plenty of action and humor,and mad science galore are all there. But there are a couple of small problems. The first is that there are a lot of characters and ...more

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Jan 30, 2015 Jay rated it it was ok

Shelves: superhero

felt like the author started with a desired title and worked backwards to a story that got there. at most one of the new characters introduced is given a chance to become compelling (the rest are barely on the screen, can only be heard indirectly, cardboardy, or (view spoiler)). much of the cleverness of kids keeping up with adults from the first book is just gone. bleh. having the POV character black out on a regular basis for her mad science has ...more

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Jun 13, 2015 Rickus Bookshelf rated it liked it

Shelves: netgalley, 3-stars, science-fiction, young-adult

A nice book. Full review over here: https://rickusbookshelf.wordpress.com... ...more

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Jun 12, 2019 Lauren rated it liked it

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Bad Penny and the rest of the Implacable Machine are bored out of their minds. Going back to school after a break full of super villainy and fighting heroes both their own age and grown up will do that. So of course they jump at the chance to visit Jupiter and see things no human has before. No human except the ones who already live there. With a homemade space ship and the help of a giant spider the Implacable Machine will see everything from alien invaders to robot overlords and the colonies t Bad Penny and the rest of the Implacable Machine are bored out of their minds. Going back to school after a break full of super villainy and fighting heroes both their own age and grown up will do that. So of course they jump at the chance to visit Jupiter and see things no human has before. No human except the ones who already live there. With a homemade space ship and the help of a giant spider the Implacable Machine will see everything from alien invaders to robot overlords and the colonies trapped between them. With any luck, they’ll be able to help the rebels and their new friend get their homes back and be on their way towards heroism.

Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon follows Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Super Villain pretty directly with the Implacable Machine trying to settle back into day to day school lives. It’s got a really strong start there, giving the reader a taste of how dull things are after Penny and company have gone toe to toe with some of the best of the best but then have to go back to being just kids. It gives the reader one of a number of good reasons why the team is so ready to take up Spider’s offer to see what lies beyond the asteroid belt first hand. But it also pulls back a little to anchor things back in the reality of the setting, which is good because the book goes way out there.

This one feels a lot slower than the previous book, largely due to the necessity of doing all the world building for the Puppeteers and the Jupiter colonies and, and, and. This is unfortunate because it slows the book down just enough that it makes it easy to put down. There are all these places being introduced and their rules and culture and it leads to things feeling a little flat. The Puppeteers are scary aliens that can take over people and force them to do whatever. One of the colonies is very steam punk flavored and people are constantly being told what to do by the automatons that functionally rule the place. It feels sketched out but not quite filled in.

There’s a similar problem with some of the characterization. The new friend character bounces between being totally cool with Penny’s powers and how they work and then freaked out about it and jealous over how her brothers and everyone else react to Penny’s power. It’s like a switch flips when Roberts felt the situation demanded it. It doesn’t tend to feel like it fits, like there should have been more build for it and more awareness on Penny’s part. The final boss of the novel has a similar issue, though I can’t really go into that without spoilers.

There are parts that are a ton of fun, especially early on before they reach the Jupiter colonies. The whole bit surrounding the Red Herring being built is a lot of fun. Plus the little bits of Penny and company in class and their classmates’ reactions to Penny’s power manifesting make for a couple of nice notes that what she’s got going on is out of the ordinary. I’m also interested in seeing how the workings of her power continue to develop, given the way Mourning Dove reacts to it and how much it seems to be capable of when given free reign. I’m really excited to see more of all that as the series continues.

As and over all thing, I enjoyed Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Super Villain more than Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon. While both needed world building it flowed much better for me in the first book, likely due to being set in our world but with supers. I would have liked to see more put into the new characters introduced, but I feel like at least a couple of them are going to show up again later, so it seems pretty reasonable that they would get more development then. Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon is nowhere near a bad book though and I am very much looking forward to reading the next one, so it gets a three out of five.

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Dec 07, 2017 Douglas Debner rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This is a really enjoyable book with some REALLY STOOOPID story choices. Primarily the main character, Penny, is an evil genius super villain, except she's not really totally completely evil. Penny, 14, ends up in conflict with a 12 year genius mechanic and IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE TO SAVE ALL HUMANITY FROM EVIL ALIENS, Penny is immediately behind the 12 year-old's armor suit and decides she (Penny) CAN'T TEMPORARILY DISABLE THAT ARMOR BECAUSE OF HOW IT WILL UPSET THE 12 YEAR-OLD EVEN THOUGH TH This is a really enjoyable book with some REALLY STOOOPID story choices. Primarily the main character, Penny, is an evil genius super villain, except she's not really totally completely evil. Penny, 14, ends up in conflict with a 12 year genius mechanic and IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE TO SAVE ALL HUMANITY FROM EVIL ALIENS, Penny is immediately behind the 12 year-old's armor suit and decides she (Penny) CAN'T TEMPORARILY DISABLE THAT ARMOR BECAUSE OF HOW IT WILL UPSET THE 12 YEAR-OLD EVEN THOUGH THE EXISTENCE AND FREEDOM OF ALL HUMANITY DEPENDS ON PENNY DOING SO (so far as Penny knows at that time).

I can only assume the author is writing for a younger audience and is committed to the belief that a consistently intelligent main character would be off-putting to them for some reason. What's worse is none of this needed to happen- Penny wasn't actively trying to get behind the 12 year-old, the author just had that happen by chance.

The reason the stupid bits annoy me so much is because otherwise this is a really good book. So good that up until that battlefield scene I overlooked all the other stupid stuff, like the main character agreeing to go on a space adventure without first asking how Spider (the villain who recruits her for this mission) was going to cover her absence with her parents and school. The mission has two parts and was prompted by a mysterious signal from Jupiter of apparent human origins. Part 1 Penny and co. are to investigate the asteroid belt to make certain Spider's asteroid mining isn't threatened. They discover a hospital set up in the asteroid belt by a bunch of supers who went there in circa 1910 but had since been taken over by body-snatcher type aliens. They also find a portal back to earth. Do they investigate the portal to see where it comes out on earth? No. Do they investigate to see if the aliens have a toe-hold on earth? No. THEY IMMEDIATELY BLOW UP THE PORTAL, NEARLY KILLING THEMSELVES AND, SINCE THE OTHER END IS ON EARTH, POTENTIALLY DESTROYING THE EARTH AS WELL.

Part 2 Penny and Co. head out to Jupiter to investigate the signal. They discover another group of supers for whom we are never given a clear history (I GUESS THE AUTHOR COULDN'T SPARE 5 MINUTES TO WRITE THE TWO LINES IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN TO DO SO). All we really know is a last wave of "immigrants" came circa 1940 because one old guy tells his story about coming to Jupiter to escape Hitler.

Penny & Co. also encounter someone who claims to be working with the Jovians, some sort of alien species trapped in Jupiter's atmosphere. Do Penny & Co., WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE INVESTIGATING JUPITER, ask about the Jovian at all? No. Does it turn out that the Jovians are of interest to the Penny & Co.? I'll just let you guess about that.

Bottom line: If this author didn't feel compelled to undercut his own work this would have been an excellent book. As written, Penny, the evil genius who isn't really evil is also clearly not even of average intelligence for a large portion of this book. ...more

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Apr 15, 2018 Hamda rated it liked it

A fun read with quite a few interesting ideas and a cool setting. Sadly the execution left a few things to be desired.

I found book to be fun though it suffered from YA syndrome. In this one the team goes TO SPACE and finds a steampunk colony complete with Victorian era aesthetics.

The spaceship is a catfish -don't question it!- and they make a quick stop at Cronenberg's R US to pick up a few side characters that we shelve for awhile.

Of Steampunk land were we learn about the whole colony and ho ...more

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Nov 26, 2017 Daniel rated it really liked it

The first book in the series is absolutely addicting, funny, entertaining, and enjoyable. This book ticks all of the same boxes, but does so to a lesser extent.

The book starts off as a continuation of the first one, but then things take a turn: our heroes go somewhere they never were before (hint in the title (which is slightly incorrect, btw)). From there, the story switches to what seem like multiple short arcs, which build up on each other, and even though they are entertaining, are not as go ...more

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Jun 23, 2017 Bonnie Dale Keck rated it liked it · review of another edition

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My roommate who reads comics and all thinks this set is 4 or even better, no idea why, bad role model to say the least for the young adults presumably written for, yet situations and attitudes are so not right for that age group or older.

I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! (Please Don't Tell My Parents Book 4) {more like .5/prequel} {Amazon shows it as book 4, so Amazon shows 2 book 4's}
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Jan 10, 2017 Heather rated it it was ok

I loved the first Don’t Tell My Parents book, but this one just wasn’t very good. It often droned on and on needlessly. Sometimes the descriptions of the Puppeteers and Meat Puppets were rather graphic and disgusting (they gave my ten-year-old nightmares). I mostly found myself bored while reading Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon and hoping the end would hurry up. It was just such a disappointment after the first book. I don’t recommend reading it.

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Jan 30, 2018 Ty rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Enjoyable read :)

This was an enjoyable read, however much some of the characters frustrated me. Frustration was not due to bad character design or anything, it's just some of the characters are plain stupid in the head. It fits though. This story continues the series quite well and I recommend it if you enjoyed the first book. Read it! ...more

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Aug 05, 2017 Kay rated it really liked it

Not a bad book. When it got really techy and sounding like instructions I have a sigh and powered through it but overall the story was pretty good. Didn't kind the absolute ridiculousness of it. It was actually kind of cute at times. I'd still continue the series. ...more

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Feb 23, 2018 Pamela rated it really liked it

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Jan 01, 2021 Scott Wozniak rated it it was amazing

A grand adventure for the growing supervillains/heroes. This time they went into space. The characters grew, we learned more about the world of the story (some juicy mysteries revealed) and the ending was more poignant than I expected and I'm looking forward to the next book. ...more

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Jan 17, 2021 Ryan rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-with-the-kiddos

What was the plot?

This was a slog. I enjoyed the first book but there was way too much going on here. And some of the writing was in need of a good editor. People, even teenagers, don't talk like that. ...more

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Jul 25, 2017 James Ingraham rated it liked it

A lot of fun. I don't like some elements, and it was longer than it really needed to be. The characters are the real draw. I did the audio book version, which was excellent. ...more

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Jul 31, 2017 Mel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, books-i-own, read-in-2017

This is a great series. I am very amused by Penny, and the trouble she gets into and out of. I didn't fully enjoy Remmy's breakdown, but it made some sense. ...more

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Aug 18, 2017 Meredith rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, fiction, secrets, series-open, young-adult-literature, humor, road-trip, stranger-in-a-strange-land, resourceful-girls, friendship

Meh. This one just didn't work for me. Too much world building; too few likable characters. ...more

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Feb 03, 2018 Discfan2 rated it liked it

Shelves: alternate-world, superhero

The first part of the book was great, chinatown, etc. When they jump out to the moon and suddenly Penny doesn't have to worry about staying hidden, it loses some of the thrill. ...more

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Jun 18, 2018 Gwen rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi

Fun, but not as good as the first in the series.

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Aug 10, 2018 Derya Erisdottir rated it liked it

Shelves: superhero

Not as good as the first book, but entertaining nonetheless.

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Oct 14, 2018 Stefanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 10-15, science-fiction, superheroes

Unfortunally I didn't like the ending, felt too abrupt for me. And Remmy... *sign* ...more

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Dec 17, 2018 JR rated it really liked it

Still very entertaining but I think the setting can get very confusing. Otherwise I would give it 5 stars.

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May 30, 2017 Kristina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own

While I enjoyed this installment, it felt a bit flat and out of place. But that may be because I'm 40+ years old reading/listening to a book for kids.

But that being said, the story, while feeling a bit contrived, moved a a good pace, had great dialogue and inner monologues and I found myself laughing in places.

It was not so out of place that I will not continue with the series to see how Penny and her friends continue on the road to Superheroism... or Super Villainism. ...more

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Dec 13, 2015 Bethany rated it it was ok · review of another edition

So. I read the book. And... I gotta say i'm not impressed. Which disappoints me because I totally enjoyed the first one. This book though yeah here's hoping the next one is better.

In the beginning I was enjoying the book, we were back to our main characters Penny, Ray and Claire and they're settling into their roles as villains. (view spoiler) So. I read the book. And... I gotta say i'm not impressed. Which disappoints me because I totally enjoyed the first one. This book though yeah here's hoping the next one is better.

In the beginning I was enjoying the book, we were back to our main characters Penny, Ray and Claire and they're settling into their roles as villains. (view spoiler) I'm glad Penny's getting more comfortable with herself. I mean she's actually enjoying being a villain but i gotta say i think she was channeling a little Bella with the whole relationship stuff, she got better through out the book but still. (view spoiler) Ignoring the unnecessarily awkward preteen romance, i got really excited when Penny was challenged to defeat the countdown timer thing. I'm like Yes!, awesome story-line Penny gets a mysterious rival and she's got to figure out who it is and what their game is. Is it a competition seeing who's better or is someone coming to take her status as a supervillian? And the next thing i know we're in space. And Richard nearly lost me right there. I'm like what about the unknown rival? Why are we leaving earth when stuff is just getting good? And Penny is suppose to be smart, what idiot goes to space on the say so of someone they don't trust with little information and with nobody they can trust in the know?

So we're in space and we stay there, and stay there, and we're in a horror movie. I don't like horror movies give me comedy, give me thrillers, give me action, give me romance but not horror. We're in space with tentacles exploding out of pods, mind eating parasites and chicks with goat heads attached. (view spoiler) There's the second Con of this book.We step into a horror movie. The first con, being leaving Earth for no good reason, and the third would be the characters. (view spoiler) I missed Lucyfar, Spider and the rest. Why oh why did you have to leave earth Penny. I think she left her brain there as well. Seriously this was not the girl who's adventures i enjoyed reading about in the first book.

Moving on that was three cons, so three strikes (and you're out) against the book. Still I managed to finish the book, even though it took me longer than the first. Therefore it gets two stars instead of one. In regards to the third book, i will buy it when it comes out, since i have the first two and this means i am now committed to buying all the books even if i don't read them. Since i'm shelling out the money can i request Penny gets a real rival this time. You know the one we got teased with at the beginning of the book? I'd appreciate it. ...more

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